The latest figures show that circulation at the Los Angeles Times decreased 8 percent in the six-month period ending in September. According to data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Times lost almost 67,500 readers.

Wachovia Corp. has signed a lease in Century City for its new Southern California regional headquarters, planned renovation was enough to keep CNN at the 6430 Sunset Blvd. building, Equity Residential continued its pursuit of beach-adjacent property in th

The Los Angeles market could have yet another merger on the way. Although neither Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP nor Dewey Ballantine LLP is based in Los Angeles, both firms have offices here. The firms made their negotiations public last week.

Britain's culture secretary on Friday compared the U.S. crackdown on online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as she prepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week.

Wednesday, October 25

Ihop Corp. reported third quarter net income of $11.3 million (62 cents per share), a 6 percent dip from $12 million (62 cents) for the same period a year earlier. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected earnings of 58 cents on revenue of $91 millio

The Wilshire Corridor is getting pricey. Average asking rates for Class A office space from Miracle Mile to Mid-Wilshire began rising in late 2003 on shrinking vacancy rates and have hit $2.35 per square foot.

It was an all-too-brief time in the sun: for 20 years following World War II, the Crenshaw community in South-Central Los Angeles was a center of commerce, culture and perhaps the leading example of multi-ethnic co-existence in Los Angeles.

As skill games go which means games not of chance but of skill or talent a couple of Los Angeles companies are finding unique, or perhaps "skillful," ways to tap into that growing multi-billion-dollar market.

The San Fernando Valley office market remained one of the tightest in all of L.A. County in the third quarter. Supply lagged well behind demand, and tenant improvement costs continued to soar, egging on landlord confidence.

Private-equity firms are wading into the auction for Tribune Co. and likely stand the best hope for a company trying to sell itself amid weak financial results, an uncertain future and a divided board of directors.

Shaul Kuba is a principal and founder of CIM Group Inc., a savvy development company that has played a big role in Hollywood's renaissance. Now, CIM has set its sights on the Crenshaw Corridor, where it is co-developing parcels owned by the West Angeles C

When developer Robert Maguire announced plans for a 50-story office building in downtown Los Angeles, civic leaders and the real estate industry lauded the plan for the first new skyscraper in the area in over 14 years.

Los Angeles biomedical entrepreneur Alfred Mann has finally gotten a second major research university to sign on to his vision of creating a life sciences/biomedical engineering research institute that takes a more focused approach to commercializing acad

After a slow first half of the year, investment transactions in the downtown area rebounded energetically in the third quarter, with six buildings changing hands and the promise of at least two more going on the block

Given the rising costs for office acreage and what landlords were paying for tenant improvements, experts said it was "no surprise" North County rental rates stayed on a sharp upward spiral in the third quarter.

Despite all the talk about how the Internet is replacing traditional media, people still want their news validated by brand-name journalism. Two new studies show that both general consumers and online leaders trust TV, radio and print outlets more than ne

Xencor, which develops protein and antibody therapeutics, has raised $45 million in a private financing led by two large drug companies that see potential for their own pipelines in the Monrovia company's technology.

Northrop Grumman Corp. said it plans to bid for a contract to develop the U.S. Navy's newest maritime surveillance program, and separately announced it had been awarded three contracts with a combined value of $52.4 million.

Time Warner Inc.'s cable unit has filed for an initial public offering that may raise as much as $6.9 billion and for the first time give investors a stake in the nation's second largest cable television provider.

Shares of Jakks Pacific Inc. saw their biggest gain in six years on Thursday as the maker of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. action figures reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit and reiterated its full-year forecast.

After signing legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday in New York that his administration will work with at least eight Eastern states to enable businesses to trade pollution credits thousands

One year after legislation made it more difficult for consumers to discharge their debts through bankruptcy, the impact has spread to the business sector with fewer Los Angeles County companies filing for bankruptcy.

Two terms for councilmembers isn't enough to deal with complex issues, according to Proposition R proponents Gary Toebben of the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce and Liza White of the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles.

Ralphs Grocery Co. said Monday that it entered guilty pleas to five federal criminal counts stemming from its effort to illegally hire locked out union workers during the 2003-2004 labor dispute that created turmoil in Los Angeles' supermarket sector.

To expedite approval of a Century City condominium project, Related Cos. has worked out a settlement with homeowners groups that could be unprecedented in Los Angeles: The associations could get an equity share of a future development.

Friday, October 13

The founder of Tower Records says he's "busy as hell" finding investors and putting together a small, one- or two-store retail music business following last week's sale of the legendary retailer to a liquidator.

Thursday, October 12

The investment firm owned by Microsoft Inc. co-founder Paul Allen said Wednesday that it is planning on exercising an option to sell its shares in Dreamworks Animation SKG Inc. in a secondary public offering.

Los Angeles World Airports, the city's governing body of the four local airports, said Thursday that JCDecaux SA has been awarded a 10-year concession advertising contract for LAX and Ontario airports.

Results from Tuesday's vote by Image Entertainment Inc. shareholders on whether to replace its board with a slate of directors backed by Lion's Gate Entertainment Corp. are expected to be available next week.

Joey Behrstock, a life insurance specialist at Gilbert-Krupin, attended a Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles golf tournament about five years ago. When he asked what he could do to help, someone said: "The best thing you can do is become a big

After two days of speculation a federal bankruptcy judge late Friday approved the sale of Tower Records to Woodland Hills-based Great American Group, which said it plans to liquidate the music retailer.

As the Dodgers battled the Mets, few were pulling harder for the home team than the executives at RazorGator Interactive Group, an online ticket broker that stood to make big profits if L.A.'s season continued.

With the collapse of his bid to push General Motors Corp. into an alliance with two foreign automakers, Kirk Kerkorian has yet to reap a windfall on his investment in the automaker, which analysts said could drive him to seek ways to further lift the stoc

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. said Friday that it has partnered with New Line Television, a division of Time Warner Inc., to handle New Line's U.S. domestic distribution for syndication and series programming. The deal is for two years.

NetSol Technologies Inc. said Friday that as part of a strategic growth initiative and corporate reorganization, current Chairman Najeeb Ghauri will replace his brother, Naeem U. Ghaurias, chief executive of the company.

The Tribune Co. forced out Los Angeles Times Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson Thursday morning, a little more than a month after he defied the media conglomerate's demands for staff cuts that he suggested could damage the newspaper.

Health Care Property Investors Inc. closed its purchase of a Florida health care real estate investment trust that transforms the company into the nation's largest public REIT specializing in health care properties.

Government investigators have found the same virulent strain of E. coli that has sickened nearly 200 people around the nation in cattle manure on pastureland adjacent to two Salinas-area spinach fields, officials announced Tuesday

After missing out on two large non-defense jobs from the government in the past month, Northrop Grumman Corp. said Tuesday that it has received a $750 million Department of Homeland Security contract as well as a $79 million contract from the U.S. Army.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a tentative plan to keep open troubled Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center and its badly needed emergency room, deciding against turning the facility over to a private hospital corpora

Many of the world's steelmakers are expressing growing concern about global oversupply and increasing exports from China, the world's largest steel producer and consumer, and warning Chinese producers to rein in their production.

More than 200 times each day, authorities detect radiation in containers arriving off cargo ships at Port Newark. It's in ceramic tiles, granite, pottery, kitty litter - all natural products made from Earth's elements.

Homeowners in every state but one spent more of their incomes on housing costs last year than at the start of the decade, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau. Those in Alaska spent the same.

Peace may be breaking out in the copyright infringement war between viral video giant YouTube Inc. and the major music companies whose tunes are appropriated to provide soundtracks for many of the site's clips.

Image Entertainment Inc. sent a letter to its investors Monday urging shareholders to re-elect its entire board and reject the nominees of Lion's Gate Entertainment Corp. saying the film company's hostile bid is hurting Image's performance.